Posts Tagged with ‘Neuromancer’

Microsoft Offers for Yahoo: Welcome to the Land of Neuromancer

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

The Internet is, of course, all abuzz over the $44.6 billion offer Microsoft has made for Yahoo. Twitter lit up like a Christmas tree with discussion of the offer. And it's a great deal for Yahoo with a 62% premium above Yahoo's close price on Thursday. Odds are if they don't take this offer, Microsoft will opt for the hostile takeover route.
The offer may meet resistance on the anti-trust front, especially from the EU, who don't seem to go along [...]